Got my mailbox ready!

Hope I get Valentines this year! ;)


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New dry erase boards! Soo cute!

I saw this on circuit.com and just had to recreate it!  I did not have the same fonts as the original project but I came pretty close! I then found girly paper from recollections in my stash of paper I should use and voila!  I love love pretty paper and start to hoard it because I never want to use the good stuff.  Well in an effort to downsize, I am making lots of pretty things and putting them up!

I already have an order within 5 minutes of posting!!! They make great teacher gifts and as a teacher, I know what are good gifts!!!
I can also envision some of my students writing on these at their houses because they are so darn cute!!

If you like what you see and want to purchase, you can send me an email or click on my etsy link at the side of the page!

Thanks!

Spinners!

I bought this spinner from Close to My heart and it came in a pack of 3!!!! These will be awesome for math centres next year! All I did was glue scrapbooking paper to the circle and then sanded down the edges (it was super easy!).  Then you pop back on the spinner and it works perfectly! I added numbers to mine but you could do fractions or colour sections differently, the sky is the limit!

A must for any teacher looking to add fun centres to their classroom!

Cute heart card

I wanted to craft today but since I have been doing a lot of scrapbooking lately, I decided to make some cards.  My inspiration for this heart card is from the Jeanette Lynton's blog.  I recently became a close to my heart consultant and am playing with the Art Philosophy Cartridge.

What I did was cut a card from the cricut at 4 inches.  I cut the two purple hearts at 1 3/4 inches, one with the normal heart image and the other with the layering feature.  I cut the white heart at 2 1/4 inches.  On the bottom purple heart I stamped a portion of ditto big stamp in white ink and then covered it with the layered heart. I sprayed both hearts with a little bit of pink pearl in my ranger spritzer to add a little shimmer.  I attached the two hearts with foam adhesives as I wanted the heart to pop out!  The "thoughts of you" sentiment is a Michael's rubber stamp. All of the card stock used today was from Michael's card stock paper packs.

What do you think?!

Winter wreath

I forgot to post my winter wreath as well to do along with my Silver and Blue christmas motif!

 Old wreath that I had made years ago

 Little Christmas trees to sit by the fireplace.

 My very first Christmas tree!

Wreath I had made for my grandmother this year.

Felt Pumpkin

With halloween coming up and me not having any decorations, I decided to make this pumpkin which I saw on another blog: Clean and Scentsible.

I just loved how it turned out and the fact that I have made 2 recent crafts which did not become epic pinstrosities!

 What you need is:

• a syrofoam ball (mine is 5 inches large)
• 7-8 Felt sheets (8 1/2 by 11)
• a 3 inch circle stencil (I cut one from my cricut)
• scissors
• straight pins
• For the leaf, I used my circle but you could use any material
• a branch to put in the top to make it look like the steam (optional)

 You fold the circles in half and then half again and start pinning them to the ball.  You can choose how much/little you want to fill them up.  Its soo quick and easy!

I have yet to add the stem but once at school tomorrow, I will ask the kids to find me a branch!

Hope you like it!

Fall Wreath!

So while this isn't my first wreath ever, it is my first fall one.  I was quite pleasantly surprised at how easy they are to do with a glue gun and various fall flowers and things.

What I used was: some fake fall coloured flowers, some maple leafs which came in various colours, a gourd and pumpkin thingy!  This picture doesn't even do this justice, it looks soo professionally done in person and makes me so happy coming home from a hard days work!

Too bad I cant get the hanger a but shorter so that my guests can see my number....

an attempt at frame making...

So I wont quit my day job to make artistic frames for a living but you can see my attempt at making one from scrapbooking paper.
Notes for the readers... On other websites, it looks quick and easy.  Ya its quick, if you want it to look messy.  Problem number one that I encountered was that the paper wrinkles.... Not that easy to fix once the modgepodge is on.  It dries really quickly btw (first time using it!).
I liked the placement of my heart but felt it needed something.  I had had a different idea that I think I should have went with but my mom will think its heart felt!  I tried to use glitter glue for the writing but I don't have neat writing when it comes out of a bottle! Its weird as I can pipe quite clearly with icing, just not with glitter glue.
Anyway here it the result, along with my vday card to mommy dearest!

V day card holder?

OK so if you have a better title, please let me know as I am not the best caption writer.
I spent the better half of my day making this cute little 'pochette' for kids to put their valentines day cards in.  My kids adore crafts which is great cuz so do I! I am just hoping that in grade 6, students are still young enough to send out valentines day cards!

 Soyez a moi = Be mine! (might as well do it in French since my principal could come in at any time!

I used lots of red/pink cardstock and punched some borders in them to make the pouch look cuter.  I just added the words with some alphabet stickers that I found laying around somewhere (if you could only imagine how much stuff I have accumulated in the last 10 years...)

 This picture helps to show that there is a pouch halfway down the heart to put the cards in.  Mine is a little low and won't hold up a whole heck of a lot so beware!

I punched circles from my puncher (1-1.5 inches I think?) and as you can see, some weren't perfect circles but they still worked!

Exploding Box for putting pathfinders badges in

As some of you may know, I am a pathfinder guider. The other unit guider and I were trying to think of a cool enough way for the girls to keep their badges. They are too old for sashes so we thought about an album. Well instead of your generic run of the mill album, we found this exploding box!

At the end you have so many faces to put badges on or to decorate. We took 2 hours to build the box and in Dec we will decorate them so please tune back for the finished product!

For my door!

I thought it would be nice to have something on my door to distinguish my grade which I am teaching this year!

Cards and pages which I made at Scrapfest 2011!

Ya ok, Im a nerd... I go to scrapbooking conferences.... Whateves, its a fun time! Anyways here are some things which I made at the conference which was the weekend of April 8th 2011. For more info, go to scrapfest.ca!

Cupcake Bouquet!

So for my moms birthday, she didnt want a big cake because it was just the 5 of us at dinner. I had had this idea for a while and even painted the ceramic pot! Im pretty proud of how it turned out!

Scrapfest 2010

I went to Scrapfest in Kitchener this past weekend and will post pics of all that I made during the 24 hours of crop time I had! Will post soon!

One card of many. Made with my Cuttlebug embossing folder and Stampin Bella stamp!